Broadside Ballads (12 results)

Card Covers. Condition: Fine. 8 pages, unstapled as issued. Original card covers. Contents clean throughout. Size: 23 x 29 cms. Category: Varied Booklets; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Broadside. Circa 1870s. Composed by T. S. Lonsdale. Four verses, chorus, and spoken parts with an ornamental border. Measures 9 x 26.5 cm (3.5 x 10.5"). Trimmed. Minor foxing and a tiny closed tear to the edge. Very good.

Broadside. Circa 1850s. No. 38. Composed by L. V. H. Crosby. Three verses with an elaborate ornamental border. Measures 11 x 22 cm (4.25 x 8.75"). Trimmed. Minor foxing, short closed tear to the edge, a couple of tiny holes. Very good.

Single leaf broadside. In two columns, with woodcut illustrations at head of each. Numbered at foot 'Song - 199'. A trifle creased. An apparently unrecorded broadside printing of two popular early eighteenth-century songs including 'When the kye come hame' by the 'Ettrick Shepherd' James Hogg (1770-1835); initially published as 'The sweetest thing the best thing' in his novel The three perils of man (London, 1822). Size: Dimensions 180 x 250 mm.

Single leaf broadside. With two woodcut vignettes. Early folds, some spotting and small holes to margins, creased. An apparently unrecorded song-sheet containing the lyrics to two pastoral ballads printed by the prolific publisher W. S. Fortey who grandly advertised as 'The Oldest and Cheapest House in the World for Ballads, (4,000 sorts,) Children's Books, Panoramas, Song Books, &c.' Size: Dimensions 190 x 250 mm.

Single leaf broadside. Printed in two columns. With two woodcut vignettes. A trifle creased, two old horizontal folds, short tear to right-hand margin. An apparently unrecorded, provincially published, broadside comprised of two devotional ballads; the first an encomium to the salvation afforded by Noah's Ark, the second, 'Joseph, a Type of Christ', a song of praise casting Joseph, son of Jacob, as a paradigm of the Messiah. Devon-based printers and stationers Samuel and John Keys were in operation between 1873 and 1893, having inherited the business from their father Elias Keys with whom they had been partners since 1870. Size: Dimensions 190 x 250 mm.

Single leaf broadside. Text within ornamental border. With a woodcut vignette. A trifle creased, some chipping/short tears to margins, later paper repair to lower right-hand corner. An apparently unrecorded, provincially published, Cornish broadside comprised of three sentimental devotional ballads, 'The Rolling River', 'Sweet Land of Rest', and, the decidedly macabre, 'Mother Kiss Your Dying Boy'. Size: Dimensions 180 x 250 mm.

Single leaf broadside. Printed in two columns. With two woodcut vignettes. A trifle creased, numerous minute holes to edges. An apparently unrecorded song-sheet containing the lyrics to two pastoral ballads printed by the prolific publisher W. S. Fortey who grandly advertised as 'The Oldest and Cheapest House in the World for Ballads, (4,000 sorts,) Children's Books, Panoramas, Song Books, &c.' Size: Dimensions 190 x 250 mm.

Single leaf broadside. In two columns, with woodcut illustrations at head of each. Numbered at foot '29'. A trifle creased. A rare broadside ballad including the popular folk song 'Three maids a-milking would go', a thinly veiled narrative of courtship and illicit sexual encounter. COPAC records copies at just two locations (Durham and NLS); OCLC adds two further (McGill and Texas). Size: Dimensions 180 x 250 mm.

Single leaf broadside. In two columns, with woodcut illustrations at head of each. Numbered at foot '27'. A trifle creased. An apparently unrecorded mid-nineteenth-century broadside ballad featuring a comical song 'The Pope', in which it is declared that the life of a Sultan is preferable to that of the Pontiff, primary due to the former enjoying the pleasures of a hareem. 'The Sultan better pleases me, He lives a life of jollity, Has wives as many as he will - I would the Sultan's throne then fill. ' Size: Dimensions 180 x 250 mm.

Single leaf broadside. Printed in two columns. Edges uncut. Browned and a trifle creased. A remarkably rare survival of a broadside featuring two ballads; the first, 'Liston's Drolleries', an amusing satirical song marvelling at contemporary technological and cultural advancements, including steam power, 'Safety lamps and Congreve rockets', and German Gothic literature: 'Valmondi, the Vampire, and Der Freischutz'. The second, 'Young Donald of Dundee', popular Scottish air telling of a marriage that is not to be, is far more maudlin in tone. OCLC records a single copy (NLS); COPAC adds no further. Size: Dimensions 170 x 250 mm.

Broadside. Circa 1860s. No publisher. Eight verses with chorus with a simple ornamental border. Measures approximately 12 x 19 cm (4.5 x 7.5"). Faint pencil markings on the top edge, tiny spot to the left of the last verse. Near fine.